Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 Xii. Yarrow Unvisited Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCBC DEFEBCBC GGBGBCBC HIHIJCKC GELEMCNC OCOCCCCC FBFBBCHC PQRQCCCC| From Stirling castle we had seen | A |
| The mazy Forth unravelled | B |
| Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay | B |
| And with the Tweed had travelled | B |
| And when we came to Clovenford | B |
| Then said my winsome Marrow | C |
| Whate'er betide we'll turn aside | B |
| And see the Braes of Yarrow | C |
| - | |
| Let Yarrow folk 'frae' Selkirk town | D |
| Who have been buying selling | E |
| Go back to Yarrow 'tis their own | F |
| Each maiden to her dwelling | E |
| On Yarrow's banks let herons feed | B |
| Hares couch and rabbits burrow | C |
| But we will downward with the Tweed | B |
| Nor turn aside to Yarrow | C |
| - | |
| There's Galla Water Leader Haughs | G |
| Both lying right before us | G |
| And Dryborough where with chiming Tweed | B |
| The lintwhites sing in chorus | G |
| There's pleasant Tiviot dale a land | B |
| Made blithe with plough and harrow | C |
| Why throw away a needful day | B |
| To go in search of Yarrow | C |
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| What's Yarrow but a river bare | H |
| That glides the dark hills under | I |
| There are a thousand such elsewhere | H |
| As worthy of your wonder | I |
| Strange words they seemed of slight and scorn | J |
| My True love sighed for sorrow | C |
| And looked me in the face to think | K |
| I thus could speak of Yarrow | C |
| - | |
| Oh green said I are Yarrow's holms | G |
| And sweet is Yarrow flowing | E |
| Fair hangs the apple frae the rock | L |
| But we will leave it growing | E |
| O'er hilly path and open Strath | M |
| We'll wander Scotland thorough | C |
| But though so near we will not turn | N |
| Into the dale of Yarrow | C |
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| Let beeves and home bred kine partake | O |
| The sweets of Burn mill meadow | C |
| The swan on still St Mary's Lake | O |
| Float double swan and shadow | C |
| We will not see them will not go | C |
| To day nor yet to morrow | C |
| Enough if in our hearts we know | C |
| There's such a place as Yarrow | C |
| - | |
| Be Yarrow stream unseen unknown | F |
| It must or we shall rue it | B |
| We have a vision of our own | F |
| Ah why should we undo it | B |
| The treasured dreams of times long past | B |
| We'll keep them winsome Marrow | C |
| For when we're there although 'tis fair | H |
| 'Twill be another Yarrow | C |
| - | |
| If Care with freezing years should come | P |
| And wandering seem but folly | Q |
| Should we be loth to stir from home | R |
| And yet be melancholy | Q |
| Should life be dull and spirits low | C |
| 'Twill soothe us in our sorrow | C |
| That earth has something yet to show | C |
| The bonny holms of Yarrow | C |
William Wordsworth
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